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  • The New World of Social Commons

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 12 July 2017.] Today’s intense debate over what to do about healthcare once more highlights the country’s divisions.  The socialists want a ‘single payer’ system of homogenous nationalized healthcare, others of a more conservative bent promoting freer markets want a decentralized…

  • Scattershots – 8jul17 (updated 9jul17)

    George Rebane Have you heard anything about disgruntled and terminally progressive EPA employees having a tough time finding new jobs as they seek to leave an agency that is finally coming under some adult supervision?  Well, neither have many of us.  But it turns out that many of the bleeding hearts in the agency who…

  • Healthcare from Hell (updated 8jul17)

    George Rebane Union columnist Terry McLaughlin writes an excellent expose of nationalized healthcare in the newspaper’s 6jul17 edition – ‘Government run healthcare wouldn’t be cheaper; more efficient’.  In there she includes a detailed report from New Zealand, one of the countries often cited by socialists of how a healthcare system should work.  As you might…

  • News sources legitimate, credible, impartial, and biased (updated 7jul17)

    George Rebane ‘Legitimate’, ‘credible’, ‘impartial’, ‘biased’ are labels hung on news sources.  These days with fake news flooding the web and other channels, different people append such labels to news sources with which they agree or not.  And often they do it with little thought given to what those labels really mean, thereby increasing the…

  • By Whose Rockets’ Red Glare? (updated?)

    ‘Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.’ George Rebane After North Korea’s demonstration of its ICBM a few days ago (here), I am more convinced than ever that China will do nothing to remove that threatening thorn from our side – it will never happen.  Bear with me as I weave some of…

  • Assault on Cemental Hill

    George Rebane Our irrepressible yet lovable port-side cartoonist RL ‘Bob’ Crabb offers his latest in the 1jul17 Union which I have filched and included here for your edification and entertainment. Sadly, as time has passed, Bob has seen less and less to like about what he finds in these pages.  But what the above graphic…

  • On Responding to Russia

    George Rebane One would think that the record of these pages, which includes a considerable revelation of my background, would have cleared up any questions of how I view America’s relationship with and policy toward Russia – apparently not.  So let me attempt to spell it out.  For those expecting a simple view about Russia…

  • Democrats or Russians – which to fear most? (updated 25jun17)

    George Rebane In the comment stream of a recent post ‘Elections or Polls – take your pick’, a reader posited the thesis that Democrats were a greater danger to the American Republic than is Russia.  This launched a debate thread in which the left-leaning commenters saw those supporting the thesis to range from the ignorant…

  • Elections or Polls – take your pick

    George Rebane The Left predicted that yesterday's elections would be a referendum on Trump – well, it turns out they were right. Yesterday was a disaster for the Democrats, and today everyone from their media mentors to their grassroots minions are scrambling to put enough lipstick on last night’s election results to distract the distractable. …

  • Ruminations – 16jun17 (updated 19jun17)

    George Rebane Clarification of the 1st Amendment kudos to Union publisher Don Rogers for explaining again that the ‘free speech’ amendment applies ONLY to what our government cannot do to limit communications, no matter how wise, dumb, outrageous, … the message may be.  Private parties that control/own media and entertainment outlets are free to limit…

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